February 6 [LARP]
February 6
The best thing about Saturdays is that I can sleep in if I want to. I hadn't really planned to, but my bed was nice and warm, and the pillow smelled like Aric.
The downside was that I wound up not even going trotting at all this morning, 'cause I was being lazy.
Peggy and I did laundry, and then she said that she was going to go to Meijer because she was out of snack food and beer, and asked if I wanted to come along. Of course I said yes; I've gotten more used to big crowds of people, so it probably wouldn't be as intense as it was last time, and when I wasn't so nervous about sticking close to them I'd get a chance to see more of what people sold in stores.
We both went to lunch together, and Christine said that she'd come along, too, and asked me if I was still interested in LARPing—they were having a session tonight in the common room of Hoben Hall (which is the one where Sean lives).
Christine wanted to go right after lunch, but Peggy said that she didn't want to go to Meijer without a bra, so we'd have to wait a little bit. I didn't see what the big deal was; she'd been without all morning and it hadn't seemed to be a problem.
She said that there was a lot I had to learn about fashion, and I said I was perfectly happy being ignorant. Then she asked if it bothered me that people could see my junk. She had to explain what she meant; I thought the word only meant stuff that's broken. Then I told her that I thought that was a dumb thing to call it; my vagina worked perfectly well. Christine nearly choked on her drink when I said that.
Then Christine asked Sean if he'd ever looked at my butt, and he told her that he wasn't going to answer that question, so she punched him in the shoulder.
Maybe if ponies had eaten fruit from the tree of knowledge we'd be ashamed to be naked. But why would God want people to hide their bodies if He made them in His own image? Was He embarrassed about how He looked?
I thought the answer might be in the Bible, so I started reading Exodus while Peggy's laundry was finishing. It was about Moses, who was an important person that God spoke to from a burning bush.
It reminded me of the Crystal Ponies, how they had been oppressed by King Sombra and then trapped in a spell for a thousand years. They were a strange bunch; they sometimes put more faith in their Crystal Heart than Princess Celestia, although perhaps that was understandable, since it had been the Crystal Heart which saved them from Sombra in the end.
I was disappointed in how little progress I'd made. At the rate I was going, I wouldn't finish the Bible until the very end of the year, but it was difficult to read, and there were so many people to keep track of, and I didn't always know who was going to be important later on.
When Peggy's clothes were done, she got dressed and we got into Cobalt and stopped by Christine's dorm, then drove out to Meijer. While we were on on the way, I asked Peggy if the two different Meijers sold different things, but she said that they were basically the same. She said it was more convenient for people to not have to go so far to get to one, and that made sense.
Christine said that she thought that there were four in Kalamazoo: besides the one I'd been at and the one I'd seen on the other side of the 131 Highway, there was one further south in Portage and another one on Gull Road.
Since the girls wanted to get a few more things, and since I wanted to look around, we took our time. I didn't get to explore the whole store, though, because that would have taken forever. But I did get to look at the toys (there are Star Wars dolls, and I think I'll buy one for Christine because she's so nice) and lots of cute stuffed animals and toy cars and a whole row of building blocks called Legos.
Then we went to the stationary department, and I bought some new pens. Human pens took a bit of getting used to, but they write very well, you don't have to wait for the ink to dry, and a lot of them have a little clicker on the end that I can push with my tongue, but not too much because it annoys Peggy.
The notebooks are nice, too: the paper is very white, and has little blue lines to guide you. And there are many different colors for the cover, so that you can tell which one is which at a glance.
Then we went over to the personal hygiene department. I bought more shampoo and conditioner—the human stuff doesn't seem to last as long as pony shampoo—and since I was thinking about it, I asked Peggy where I could go to get my mane and tail trimmed. She shrugged and said that probably a normal salon could do it. Christine said that Action Shot had gone to a groomer, but that she also had had her coat trimmed.
Unicorns are really vain about that, and some earth ponies too. I don't mind being shaggy in the wintertime, because it helps keep me warm. I might have to have my hooves trimmed while I'm here, though. I'm walking on a lot of pavement, more than I usually would, and sometimes that makes them wear unevenly.
We got food next; mostly beer and snack food because the dining hall doesn't have either. Christine bought a whole bunch of boxes of Mac and Cheese and bags of Ramen noodles, and then we went into the canned food aisle so that she could get some tuna to put in her Mac and Cheese.
I considered getting some for myself, but then I found something even better: little flat cans of anchovies. That would make a much better snack than Doritos, I thought.
Peggy thought it was weird that I would eat fish, and I told her that I'd lived on the coast for years, and it was a part of our diet, especially in the winter when other forage was harder to come by. Plus fish are really energy-dense.
I paid for my purchases with a Visa card, which is like my student ID card, except it has an eagle on it. I had to stand up on my hind hooves to put it through the machine, and then use the plastic stick to sign for it. The cashier was very patient with me, which was nice.
We got back to campus in time for dinner, which wasn't anything too special. Then I did a little bit of homework, until it was time to meet with Christine so that we could LARP.
She'd put on different clothes—a tight-fitting chestpiece that she called a bodice, tall boots with buckles on them, and she'd braided her hair. She said that some of the people who played liked getting dressed up in costumes that fit their characters.
Then she explained the rules to me. It was a little complicated and confusing, and I couldn't do rock-paper-scissors with my hooves, so she thought about that for a little bit, and then suggested that I could hold out my wings for paper, stomp a hoof for rock, and bite for scissors. So we practiced that a little bit.
Christine told me that she'd stay close to me as I was getting used to it, and that everyone who played was friendly and would not be bothered if I had to ask questions. She said that Keith and Sean and Seth and Thomas all played frequently, and that they'd be there tonight, and any one of them would be happy to answer any questions I had.
Then she asked me who my character would be. I couldn't really think of anything creative, so I said Zapp (I had to explain who that was). She thought that was a pretty good choice, that it would probably be good as a starting point to play a character who I was familiar with, and then later on maybe I could make an original character.
So then we walked to Hoben and started playing. It was a bit confusing, especially since some of the people I knew were pretending to be different people, and even their actions were different. Christine 'killed' a couple of them.
There were some people in the group who did multiple roles; Christine told me later that they were NPCs, and the storyteller told them what to do, while other people like her and me were main characters, and we got to make our own choices. She said that everyone took turns at being a NPC.
I liked the idea of making my own choices, but I thought it might be easier to get into it if I played as a NPC for a while, until I got used to the game. She was kind of disappointed at first, but then decided that might actually be a good idea, so next time I play I won't be Zapp, but I'll be whoever the storyteller says I am.
It was pretty late when I got back to my dorm room, but Peggy was still up. She asked me if I'd had fun, and I said that I had and that I thought I was going to play next week as well. She said that maybe she'd come and watch.
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Sorry about the late post; like Silver Glow, I slept in until noon.
So she is starting with LARPing. I would always recommend D&D.
THE QUICKENINGGGGGGGGGGGG I FEEL IT
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7088884 I plead the 5th.
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I wonder if their resident Trekkie is going to set up a match of Artemis Starship Bridge Simulator and turn a room with an overhead projector into a bridge (or something similar).
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If you accept suggestions, I´d like to request a chapter of Glow giving her opinion about human best fictional villains (Joker, Darth Vader, Loki, etc...), comparing them with Equestrian´s ones (including real ones, like Chrysalis).
Awww.
Not sure if that means what I think it means...
Kind of surprised it took this long for the topic to come up, really.
Is this a Midwest thing? My dad was born in Iowa, and he and I always eat it this way, which grosses out my mom and brother.
7088884 I was just surprised/disappointed that there was no April Fool's chapter.
Or... was having no chapter itself the April Fool's joke?!
The subtle shipping with Aric was cute, and Silver's misunderstanding of "junk" was comedy gold.
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I didn't see that many people do that back in Illinois, where I lived until I was 22. But there were a few. So, maybe it is a Midwest thing, but not widespread.
My hometown of Springfield has a special food, though. It's called (coincidentally for this story) a "Horseshoe." It's a burger patty on top of a slice of Texas toast, covered with french fries and cheese sauce.
You can see it here.
haha really nice so far ! i also like the speed that chapters are coming
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Silver is a Pegasus with a good head for mathematics and statistics, so I have a suspicion she would see the weaknesses in D&D's systems fairly quickly. I feel like she would better appreciate something with stronger social modeling power (Shadowrun? Or maybe Hunter?) or something that's more fast and loose (Savage Worlds or Fudge might work).
Wing out, ok sure, hoof stomp, all rigth, but bite? Bitting what? The other player's hand?
Aside from that, it was one fun chapter.
7088884 So does that mean you're Silver Glow?
The comment about junk is exactly what I was talking about previously with Silver's surprising shows of apparent innocence. She talks casually about her vagina (and didn't answer the question, I noticed), but comes across so innocent/naive/something concerning the slang.
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He totally is. I've hung out with her at the last two Bronycons.
I hope they took the opportunity to reenact the Pegasus scenes from Clash of the Titans. The original. Not the shit remake.
Are there any Ancient Greek language classes at their school?
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I feel bad for doing that... So is Admiral a female or...?
Danny, I was eating when that vagina line came up. Had to self Heimlich myself.
I'm surprised that ponies aren't subject to the same indecent exposure laws that humans are.
Author appeal I suppose.
7089720 Well, ponies have never had to wear clothes on Earth before, so...
When I didn't see a new chapter this morning I thought Silver Glow and Admiral Biscuit were taking the weekend off. Glad to see I was wrong.
Admiral, do you write these daily, or do you write a bunch in advance? How big is your buffer?
At some point, someone needs to ask Silver Glow about unicorns so she can go off on a racist rant about them, at which point someone can point that out to her. Then the healing can begin.
7089037 No, it's not a Midwest thing. I'm from the Deep South, and tuna mac was one of my favorite dishes when I was a kid.
Great. She can bite the end of her pen and click it at the same time. I'd probably kill her after 30 minutes. ;)
Regarding LARP... imagine being GM and having a real pegasus available as NPC. Damn.
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Different types of ponies, why would the rules that apply to animal ponies apply to sapient ponies?
7089720 Wouldn't make sense. They're covered in fur. Secondary and primary sexual characteristics are covered up.
If we had fur and tails and sheaths and stuff like that, we probably wouldn't wear clothes either.
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In storytime, it's February 6.
Oh man. I can totally see Peggy's face as she's struggling to not snap at the adorable, innocently annoying pony.
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You can LARP D&D?
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That would be pretty cool, and (unlike when I went to college), the technology to do it these days is really affordable, even if there aren't rooms with projectors which could be used. Is that something reasonably commonplace these days?
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It could take a while for that to come up; Silver Glow isn't familiar with that many fictional villains yet. That's a good suggestion, though!
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Well, there's everybody thinking it, and then there's someone actually saying it.
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Either that, or a Maryland thing. It was one of the two things my dad was good at making for dinner (the other was ordering pizza).
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Thanks!
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She would tend to prefer the role playing to the hacking and slashing that so many RPGs become. I will say in my experience really good role playing makes games the most memorable (and most of the stuff I remember from past campaigns was pure role playing, not fighting), but as a sometimes DM, it's one of the hardest parts of the game. Much easier to just toss a bunch of monsters at the players.
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Just making a biting movement--the text could have been phrased better. I was going to put 'clack,' since that's an IRL foal behavior, but I thought many of my readers wouldn't know what that meant.
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Sadly, no.
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Slang's difficult to translate to a foreign language.
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No, but there's the possibility of that in the future, I suppose.
IRL, I don't know. I took Latin, so they had that at least. Of course, since I'm playing a bit fast and loose with reality, there could be.
Since some of the show canon is based on Greek myths and legends, I think it would be funny to write a PoE or HiE where all the ponies speak ancient Greek.
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Guy.
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There's a bit of catch-up, and interpretations would vary. Legally, 'person' in the laws usually specifically refers to a human being, and ponies aren't that.
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Daily; if I'm lucky, my buffer is one complete chapter in advance.
She should! Twilight would love them (a gift fit for a princess!)
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It's not racist, it's tribalist. There's a very subtle difference between the two, admittedly.
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No you wouldn't, because she's so damn adorable.
Oh, the possibilities would be endless. Especially once the winter's over, and you're playing outside.
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Not on a realistic equine, they aren't. For obvious reasons, I can't post a link, but trust me, if Silver moves her tail off to the side (or has it lifted, like they're usually depicted in the show), it's not really going to leave anything to the imagination.
Or if we weren't so prudish.
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A battle she would surely lose.
"people could seem my junk"
see?
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Oops! Correction made; thank you!
For the Feb. 6 entry, putting tuna in mac and cheese is just a bad way to ruin perfectly good tuna!
That seems really hard, because with such different gestures it's almost impossible not to telegraph them.
Good on Silverglow's friends. They bring the new kid into their LARP and don't just turn her into cannon fodder or the character that runs errands between older players.
It's not hard to read, it's hard to understand. Even if you just READ it there's still so much more to understand and learn from it. Anywho, back to the story, you're doin' great Admiral.
¿People can see her vagina? ¿Are her labia gaping open? Maybe, you mean her vulva.
7407929 It doesn't look like you're speaking Spanish, so why are you using Spanish punctuation?
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On FiMFiction.Net, Tabs insert Tab-Spaces, so you can have Tab-Spaces in your comments. I always type thus:
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More thorough markup makes it easier for the reader.
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To quote myself:
Hmm... It seems closer to a dnd session than a larp session.
I mean, sure not every larp group uses boffer weapons, but most do, and most of them aren't held inside. Yes, I get that it is winter but still.
I wonder if the Barony of Andelcrag will show up. Your story has a highly diverse selection of people, so a SCAdian would be likely in my opinion.
Special rule: When Maud Pie plays this game, scissors totally cuts rock.
i feel like this is relevant.[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgBySAs6MVw]
Ohkay
Nah, nah... when you're talking about supermarkets, companies sell things in stores. People just buy things in stores
Heehee. Cheeky reply.
Bwahahaa. Now I'm actually wondering how on earth a confrontation with a bible thumper would go
Imagine how I'm feeling, reading this journal...
(for the sake of fairness, though, I admit that at least it's not difficult reading
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Another lovely typical Silver Glow comment
Um. They might not have the hardware to handle that... or the expertise
"I keep losing! All I can do is 'rock', and they all know it!"
That's the important part, of course. Having fun
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That's actually a good point. Silver Glow probably doesn't realize the difference, though.
Never ask a pony for fashion advice.
She's actually do pretty well by the end of the story, after she got done reading the whole thing.
Fun fact: this journal is longer than the Bible.
Philosophical poet pegasus pony is best pony.
If she can find a farrier, he'll be able to do it.
That's true--having fun is the best part. Even if you're not entirely sure what's going on.
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Well, I guess actual biblical knowledge is the best defense against those seeking to abuse it
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Assuming they listen, which is often a really big assumption. Still, at least nobody can convince Silver Glow of something that isn't in there.
And I totally lost it here..... just love how, normal stuff seems to her, just walking around, letting it all hang out, and not even noticing. Does make you wonder how long it takes humans to get used to that. A race with no hang ups or prudish inhibitions about sex. They aren't hedonistic lust fiends about it, but, don't see any reason to treat it as anything different then anything else. Oh the joys of cultural clashes, and really love the way the story sets them up here. Ponies and humans have known about each other long enough for them to not be utterly surprised by each other, to have a good genral feel and not have a pony going around be some massive OMG!!! moment, but still new enough that these types of things happen, they have a more or less general idea of each other, but the details keep popping up that take time to work out.
Also, the bit about getting her hooves filed at a salon... I can also see this happening, as more and more ponies come to Earth to visit, or on programs like Silver Glow, places would definitely start trying to attract their business, learning how to cater to them, probably rushing to be the most 'pony friendly' place they can be to snag the new market, as well as knowing that having ponies routinely using your stores might bring in more people eager to just see them, as well as the 'we are inclusive' PR. Would really be an interesting to see how companies went about adapting to ponies, we already saw some of it, carrying products specially for ponies, like the mane and tail shampoo, and stocking them on lower shelves where they can find them easier.
Oh one more question this chapter made me ask... where is her money coming from? I'm guessing she gets a stipend as part of the program? She seems to not even consider a budget, or having finite money.. but she also doesn't really buy all that much, just, odd she never seems to consider money at all as far as what she could spend.